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Campuses from Harvard to Vassar have sent a record crop of bright interns to learn how upper-government works, and even to work it. Vassar's Judy McGuire, 20, a finalist in last summer's Miss Rheingold contest, is spending this summer batting out speeches for Manhattan's Representative John V. Lindsay. While Judy thus preps for law school, her classmate Rita Goldstein, 20, works at the Treasury Department on the Administration's tax-reform plans. Over at State, the University of Wisconsin's Dennis Dresang, 20, helped run a reception for the Somali Republic...
Brown will face the varsity without the benefit of a spring training trip under its belt, but returning lettermen Peyton Howard and Nathan Chace could give Sullivan and Niederhoffer tough matches. Howard was a finalist in the Easterns...
...career the way American Negroes often do: singing in the choir of a colored Methodist church. She studied with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara, Calif. But her career did not really get under way until she took the $1,000 in prize money she won as Metropolitan Opera Auditions finalist and departed in 1959 for Europe. There she got opera engagements in Paris, Brussels and Basel, last summer became the first Negro ever to sing at the Bayreuth Festival -as Venus in Tannhäuser (TIME...
Biggest Prize. Pianist Anievas, 27, is no stranger to career-building contests; he won the Michaels Memorial Competition in Chicago in 1958, was a finalist at Brussels in 1960 (tenth place), competed for the Leventritt Award a year ago. Will he enter the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow this spring? Says Anievas: "No, I think I should quit while I'm ahead." If he changes his mind, there is still another contest in the offing: the Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Competition, to be held in Fort Worth next fall, which will offer $10,000 as first prize, making...
...prizes were not enough to attract budding Campus Queens, the contest prospectus also promises, "Each National Finalist, when she appears on television, will be given an opportunity to pay honor to her college and community...